[Lepista]

I grew a pile of celery last year, and didn't have a decent method for storage, so I had a good lot of them left in a little trench at the end of last year. 

I didn't think they were particularly hardy, so I was surprised this spring to find that a few of them had survived the winter (I live in N Yorks, and had temperatures down to around -20 degrees!) 

Anyway, I now have a couple of pretty healthy plants growing - does anybody know what will happen to them - will they be a good new early crop, or is my only hope to grow them for seed, or should I just cut my losses now and grub them up to give the space to another crop?

Thanks kindly for any advice

[Yorkie]

Don't know but just thought I'd say welcome to the site 

[Lepista]

Thanks Yorkie, registered a while ago, but haven't used the site in anger as of yet!

Hope to become more of a regular on here!

[sarajane]

I can't believe that one of mine survived the winter also, its come back up amongst the spuds (shows how well we dug  - or not - this year).  Its too tough for eating in a salad but I keep cutting a couple of sticks off to put into soups and stews each week.

[aqua]

you could add it to stock and stuff as a way of preserving it

[shokkyy]

I just chop it up and freeze it, then just pull some out whenever I want some for a casserole or jambalaya (my personal favourite )